**Broke-Ass Edition Gaming PC**

I recently set up a new PC and was excited to see how it would perform. I'm not going to bore you with the details of setting everything up, but let's just say that it's been a great experience.

As I mentioned earlier, one of the challenges of building a gaming PC is closing it up and reinstalling Windows on it. However, this process is also quite easy. If you're interested in learning more about how to do this, I have a video linked in the description below that walks you through the process.

Now that we have our PC set up, let's take a look at some gaming benchmarks to see what kind of performance we can expect. As you can see from the results, eSports titles like CSGO, Dota 4.9, and Overwatch run very well on this system, even at low settings and 1080p resolution.

For example, CSGO gets above 100 frames per second, occasionally dipping below that a bit. However, if you have a cheapo 60Hz monitor, the experience is still buttery smooth. I would say it's a great gaming experience for CSGO.

Similarly, Dota also runs well on this system, even with higher graphics settings at 1080p. You can get above 60 frames per second, which is the Goldilocks zone of smoothness. It just feels like playing Dota on a PC, without any loss of performance.

PubG also runs very well on this system, even at low settings and 1080p resolution. Although it doesn't look amazing, it's still playable and enjoyable to play.

Fortnite is another game that runs well on this system, although you do need to drop the graphics settings quite a bit to get it to be as playable as it is. However, if you don't have a Fortnite gaming system yet, you can now join your friends and play together.

In terms of temperatures while gaming, they're not amazing, but the PC is pretty quiet and doesn't worryingly overheat. This is due to the low-power components used in the build.

Finally, if you want to play more modern games that require better graphics, this PC can still deliver. Using GeForce Now, I was able to play Assassin's Creed Odyssey at the highest settings at 60 frames per second at 1080p. The system also runs Metro Exodus with ray-tracing at around 60 frames per second at 1080p.

However, it's worth noting that the small form-factor of this PC does limit your graphics card options quite a bit. If you can get a normal-sized Dell Optiplex, I would recommend going for that instead, as you'll be able to get a better graphics card like an GTX 750ti or GTX 960.

In terms of value for money, the exact PC build I've shown here can be put together today in Vancouver for just under $200. However, prices do fluctuate over time and differ quite a lot based on what city you're in. Vancouver has a pretty bad used PC market, so you may be able to find better deals elsewhere.

Overall, I really enjoyed making this video and showing off the Broke-Ass Edition Gaming PC. If you want more information about how to buy used PCs and what to look for, I recommend checking out Tech Yes City, as Brian has all the information and knows what he's doing.

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enconsidering the at the moment the outside world loosely resembles a bad 90s apocalypse movie now is a really good time to get into PC gaming but there are a couple of problems with that the first one is PC parts availability is really bad at the moment and secondly everybody's gone bankrupt so nobody can afford to buy a badass gaming PC so the solution to both of these problems is knife battling people on Craigslist for a used office PC now before we get into the meat and gravy of this video I just want to remind you that be safe while knife battling people on Craigslist for used PC parts because at the moment the knife battling part of it isn't the most dangerous bit and then after the the Health and Safety noticed there's another quick disclaimer this video is not a buyer's guide I'm just buying a cheap office PC I'm gonna throw a cheap graphics card in there and we're gonna see what kind of gaming performance we get and now the victim for today's video is actually not Adele Optiplex I got my hands on a small form-factor Lenovo m93p and I'm really excited about it it's got some pretty big drawbacks which we'll get into later but it's all small on your desk and it's got a fourth-generation I 540 570 in there which is a quad-core CPU and it's it's pretty fast for gaming now this specific spec with four gigs of ram and no hard drive you can get in my local area for about a hundred Canadian dollars although you can go quite a bit cheaper than that if you get an older generation CPU now I would recommend adding another four gigs of ddr3 ram in here because that'll help your gaming performance and I'd recommend upgrading to an SSD because that will make your desktop usability a lot faster it'll it'll turn it into a little zippy internet browsing Beast now when it comes to the graphics cards that we can use in this system the fact that it's all small and has only eaten celery in its life does actually limit the options of graphics cards that we have for us because we can only use low profile graphics cards now if you're on a really tight budget I'd recommend going with a GT 1030 and I can't believe I just recommended buying a GT 1030 but this is its use case ok this is when you buy one if you have a bit more of a budget I'd recommend going with a gtx 1650 which is the most powerful low profile graphics card that you can kind of that you can get at the moment now for today's video I'm actually Roenick li gonna use a GT 1030 to get this PC gaming ready we're gonna have to add some more RAM install a graphics card and install an SSD now some of you may be watching this thinking Javad I am not only broke but I'm also stupid I'm terrified what if I open it up and unleash the curse of Ramses into my house don't worry about it this is honestly a very easy process and if you've never built a PC before I'd actually recommend starting with this before building a bigger more badass PC because it'll get you all comfortable with PC hardware on a cheapy PC that doesn't matter if you destroy it accidentally which you won't now the first step is to open it up you just undo two screws at the back push down this panel and slide and open now when it comes to accessing the RAM on my specific version I have to take off this plastic cover to actually reveal the RAM and then all we do is we take the stick of RAM that we have line up the little notch in the middle slide it into place and clip it down just like that we have eight gigs of RAM in our little Lenovo office PC now the next step is to install an SSD which is also very easy now on my specific Lenovo PC you press down this button lift up this tray and then slide out the hard drive or hard drive cage that's in there at the moment now for this plan over PC you do need an official bracket to actually properly install an SSD but I don't have one of those so I'm gonna do it in a very keto fashion I just used these little scotch tape sticky pads to stick it to the actual hard drive mounting thing and then I plug it in do bear in mind that you have to have the SSD the correct way around and the correct spacing in the tray otherwise the cables may not reach properly but there we go just like that we have an SSD in our new PC and then finally we need to install a graphics card this again is very easy the GT 1030 that I have comes with a normal PCI Express bracket on the back we're gonna have to take that off and put the low profile bracket on so there little fit in the little Lenovo see this involves removing one screw and then unscrewing the two little bits next to the actual DVI port once you take it off you put the small bracket on rescrew everything and then you line it up with this PCI Express slot in your PC clip it into place and there you go you've got a graphics card an SSD and some RAM in your new PC and then all you still need to do is close it up and you're probably gonna have to reinstall windows on it but that's also a very easy process I'll have a video linked in the description below that you can just follow to do that now that we have it all set up let's have a quick look at gaming benchmarks to see what kind of performance we're getting for our not very much dollar so as you can see eSports titles like csgo dota 4 9 overwatch at low settings at 1080p run very well on this little system it's actually a pretty good gaming experience so let me talk you through it a little bit csgo gets above a hundred frames per second it occasionally dips below that a bit but if you have a cheapo 60 Hertz monitor that's gonna feel buttery smooth honestly it's a great csgo gaming experience when it comes to dota it also runs very well you can put the graphic settings a little bit higher and then a 1080p you're still getting above 60 frames per second which is the Goldilocks buttery smooth zone and it just feels like playing dota on a PC you really don't feel like you're losing anything out amazingly you can even play pub G at 1080p with very low settings it doesn't look amazing but it runs very well I'm surprised at how well this little beast runs these competitive games when it comes to fortnight the gaming performance is also very good you do have to drop the settings quite a lot to get it to be as playable as it is here but it is very playable and if you don't have a fortnight gaming system yet you'd be able to join your friends now and do whatever it is that people do and fortnight together the temperatures while gaming are not amazing but it's pretty quiet and it's not a worryingly high temperature so yup all of these low-power components there you just don't need to worry about them it's really cool and then finally if you want to play more fancy modern games you can do that too if you use g-force now this PC turns into a high-end gaming system here you can see me playing Assassin's Creed Odyssey at the highest settings at 60 frames per second at 1080p there's barely any input lag this system runs GeForce now very well it's it's a great gaming experience and I even got Metro Exodus with ray-tracing running at about 60 frames per second at 1080p look at those graphics look at that some pretty crazy stuff now as I said early the fact that it's a small form-factor PC does limit your graphics called options quite a lot and if you can get a normal-sized Dell Optiplex I would recommend going that route because you can get something like a gtx 750ti or even a gtx 960 which will give you much better graphics card gaming performance than the GT 1030 in here but yeah it's it's it's up to what you can find and what size you want in your life when it comes to value for money this exact PC you can put together today in Vancouver for just under two hundred US dollars but bear in mind prices do fluctuate over time and differ quite a lot based on what city you're in Vancouver has a pretty bad used PC market as far as my experience has been so you can probably do better in the region that you're in so with that thank you very much for watching my broke-ass edition gaming PC video I actually really enjoyed making it it's it's a really great little PC and even the knife battling people on Craigslist for a used PC part was really easy I found the listing called the guy up and picked it up half an hour later it really wasn't much of an effort but if you want more information about how to buy used PCs and what to look for and how to not get scammed I definitely have a look at tech yes City brian has all of the information about the stuff and he really knows what he's doing so I would go check that out anyway until the next video thank you very much for watching subscribe to the channel if you liked it follow me on whatever social media you want to and until the next video bye byeconsidering the at the moment the outside world loosely resembles a bad 90s apocalypse movie now is a really good time to get into PC gaming but there are a couple of problems with that the first one is PC parts availability is really bad at the moment and secondly everybody's gone bankrupt so nobody can afford to buy a badass gaming PC so the solution to both of these problems is knife battling people on Craigslist for a used office PC now before we get into the meat and gravy of this video I just want to remind you that be safe while knife battling people on Craigslist for used PC parts because at the moment the knife battling part of it isn't the most dangerous bit and then after the the Health and Safety noticed there's another quick disclaimer this video is not a buyer's guide I'm just buying a cheap office PC I'm gonna throw a cheap graphics card in there and we're gonna see what kind of gaming performance we get and now the victim for today's video is actually not Adele Optiplex I got my hands on a small form-factor Lenovo m93p and I'm really excited about it it's got some pretty big drawbacks which we'll get into later but it's all small on your desk and it's got a fourth-generation I 540 570 in there which is a quad-core CPU and it's it's pretty fast for gaming now this specific spec with four gigs of ram and no hard drive you can get in my local area for about a hundred Canadian dollars although you can go quite a bit cheaper than that if you get an older generation CPU now I would recommend adding another four gigs of ddr3 ram in here because that'll help your gaming performance and I'd recommend upgrading to an SSD because that will make your desktop usability a lot faster it'll it'll turn it into a little zippy internet browsing Beast now when it comes to the graphics cards that we can use in this system the fact that it's all small and has only eaten celery in its life does actually limit the options of graphics cards that we have for us because we can only use low profile graphics cards now if you're on a really tight budget I'd recommend going with a GT 1030 and I can't believe I just recommended buying a GT 1030 but this is its use case ok this is when you buy one if you have a bit more of a budget I'd recommend going with a gtx 1650 which is the most powerful low profile graphics card that you can kind of that you can get at the moment now for today's video I'm actually Roenick li gonna use a GT 1030 to get this PC gaming ready we're gonna have to add some more RAM install a graphics card and install an SSD now some of you may be watching this thinking Javad I am not only broke but I'm also stupid I'm terrified what if I open it up and unleash the curse of Ramses into my house don't worry about it this is honestly a very easy process and if you've never built a PC before I'd actually recommend starting with this before building a bigger more badass PC because it'll get you all comfortable with PC hardware on a cheapy PC that doesn't matter if you destroy it accidentally which you won't now the first step is to open it up you just undo two screws at the back push down this panel and slide and open now when it comes to accessing the RAM on my specific version I have to take off this plastic cover to actually reveal the RAM and then all we do is we take the stick of RAM that we have line up the little notch in the middle slide it into place and clip it down just like that we have eight gigs of RAM in our little Lenovo office PC now the next step is to install an SSD which is also very easy now on my specific Lenovo PC you press down this button lift up this tray and then slide out the hard drive or hard drive cage that's in there at the moment now for this plan over PC you do need an official bracket to actually properly install an SSD but I don't have one of those so I'm gonna do it in a very keto fashion I just used these little scotch tape sticky pads to stick it to the actual hard drive mounting thing and then I plug it in do bear in mind that you have to have the SSD the correct way around and the correct spacing in the tray otherwise the cables may not reach properly but there we go just like that we have an SSD in our new PC and then finally we need to install a graphics card this again is very easy the GT 1030 that I have comes with a normal PCI Express bracket on the back we're gonna have to take that off and put the low profile bracket on so there little fit in the little Lenovo see this involves removing one screw and then unscrewing the two little bits next to the actual DVI port once you take it off you put the small bracket on rescrew everything and then you line it up with this PCI Express slot in your PC clip it into place and there you go you've got a graphics card an SSD and some RAM in your new PC and then all you still need to do is close it up and you're probably gonna have to reinstall windows on it but that's also a very easy process I'll have a video linked in the description below that you can just follow to do that now that we have it all set up let's have a quick look at gaming benchmarks to see what kind of performance we're getting for our not very much dollar so as you can see eSports titles like csgo dota 4 9 overwatch at low settings at 1080p run very well on this little system it's actually a pretty good gaming experience so let me talk you through it a little bit csgo gets above a hundred frames per second it occasionally dips below that a bit but if you have a cheapo 60 Hertz monitor that's gonna feel buttery smooth honestly it's a great csgo gaming experience when it comes to dota it also runs very well you can put the graphic settings a little bit higher and then a 1080p you're still getting above 60 frames per second which is the Goldilocks buttery smooth zone and it just feels like playing dota on a PC you really don't feel like you're losing anything out amazingly you can even play pub G at 1080p with very low settings it doesn't look amazing but it runs very well I'm surprised at how well this little beast runs these competitive games when it comes to fortnight the gaming performance is also very good you do have to drop the settings quite a lot to get it to be as playable as it is here but it is very playable and if you don't have a fortnight gaming system yet you'd be able to join your friends now and do whatever it is that people do and fortnight together the temperatures while gaming are not amazing but it's pretty quiet and it's not a worryingly high temperature so yup all of these low-power components there you just don't need to worry about them it's really cool and then finally if you want to play more fancy modern games you can do that too if you use g-force now this PC turns into a high-end gaming system here you can see me playing Assassin's Creed Odyssey at the highest settings at 60 frames per second at 1080p there's barely any input lag this system runs GeForce now very well it's it's a great gaming experience and I even got Metro Exodus with ray-tracing running at about 60 frames per second at 1080p look at those graphics look at that some pretty crazy stuff now as I said early the fact that it's a small form-factor PC does limit your graphics called options quite a lot and if you can get a normal-sized Dell Optiplex I would recommend going that route because you can get something like a gtx 750ti or even a gtx 960 which will give you much better graphics card gaming performance than the GT 1030 in here but yeah it's it's it's up to what you can find and what size you want in your life when it comes to value for money this exact PC you can put together today in Vancouver for just under two hundred US dollars but bear in mind prices do fluctuate over time and differ quite a lot based on what city you're in Vancouver has a pretty bad used PC market as far as my experience has been so you can probably do better in the region that you're in so with that thank you very much for watching my broke-ass edition gaming PC video I actually really enjoyed making it it's it's a really great little PC and even the knife battling people on Craigslist for a used PC part was really easy I found the listing called the guy up and picked it up half an hour later it really wasn't much of an effort but if you want more information about how to buy used PCs and what to look for and how to not get scammed I definitely have a look at tech yes City brian has all of the information about the stuff and he really knows what he's doing so I would go check that out anyway until the next video thank you very much for watching subscribe to the channel if you liked it follow me on whatever social media you want to and until the next video bye bye